BGP 2017 – The pliers

The pliers are used to move the prosthetic from the furnace and to attach the prosthetic to the orc.

To use the pliers the goblins have to pick up one handle each. Each part of the pliers then follows the player. To pick something up with the pliers, the players must clamp it between the ends of the pliers.

The players must then move very carefully to not let up the pressure of the pliers, or it will let go of the prosthetic and it will essentially be ruined and the players must reheat the prosthetic and try again.

After testing our initial implementation we decided to scrap this feature due to a few reasons.

• It wasn’t a very good implementation, although a lot of time was spent on it.

The pliers were hard to control as movement became too complicated and grabbing objects did not work properly.

• The design was not thought out and we did not come up with solutions to problems which arouse.

It was unclear how we would solve inputs for lowering and raising the pliers. For example, how would the pliers reach up to the orc on the stretcher vs the prosthetic on the ground. They all felt like they added even more complexity to the mechanic, when the mechanic needed to be simplified.

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